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Philip Klein / National Review:
Disgraceful House Republicans Rescue Biden's Flailing Agenda — Just before midnight on Friday, we witnessed an utterly disgraceful act by a group of 13 House Republicans. Given the chance to deal a severe blow to President Biden's flailing agenda, they instead rescued him by providing Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
The infrastructure Republicans — Some of the swing-district House Republicans who crossed party lines to help Democrats pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill told Axios they believe they can survive the political fallout from their own party — and that their vote strengthens …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Patience, persistence pay off as Biden brings infrastructure package across finish line — Bipartisan deal would have ramifications for roads, bridges, ports, and broadband access across the entire country, delivering on a campaign promise. — Less than 10 months after taking office …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP erupts over its House members bailing out Biden — In Tuesday's election, Republicans served notice that the clock is ticking on Democrats' slim majorities in Congress. On Friday, 13 House Republicans delivered the decisive votes to rescue a key part of President Biden's agenda — an agenda endangered by those in his own party.
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Roads, transit, internet: What's in the infrastructure bill — WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a $1 trillion bipartisan plan to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public works systems and boost broadband internet, among other major improvements to the nation's infrastructure.
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Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
13 Republicans under fire for breaking ranks on infrastructure bill — Thirteen GOP lawmakers came under fire after bucking the party line and voting in favor of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, with several defending their decisions Saturday morning.
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Axios:
House passes $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending it to Biden's desk
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Bloomberg:
House Passes Historic Infrastructure Bill in Win for Biden
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Philip Klein / National Review:
It Smells Like House Democrats Have a Deal
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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the House Passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
New York Times:
F.B.I. Searches James O'Keefe's Home in Ashley Biden Diary Theft Inquiry — Authorities carried out a court-ordered search at the New York apartment of the Project Veritas founder two days after searching the homes of his associates. — Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O'Keefe …
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Project Veritas:
FBI and Southern District of New York Raid Project Veritas Journalists' Homes
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John Sexton / HotAir:
What is going on with Project Veritas and the FBI?
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New York Times:
Democrats Thought They Bottomed Out in Rural, White America. It Wasn't the Bottom. — Republicans ran up the margins in rural Virginia counties, the latest sign that Democrats, as one lawmaker put it, “continue to tank in small-town America.” — HOT SPRINGS, Va. — The increasingly liberal politics …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Merrick Garland is caught in a pickle with Steve Bannon — (CNN)It's been 16 days since the Democratic-controlled House approved a contempt resolution against former Trump White House political Svengali Steve Bannon for his refusal to provide testimony to the January 6 committee.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
House 6 January panel to issue new round of subpoenas for Trump allies — Focus on events at Willard hotel ‘command center’ — John Eastman among about 20 individuals in committee's sights — The House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January …
Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers lashes out against NFL, ‘woke mob’ in defense of vaccination status — Decrying the “woke mob,” “cancel culture” and what he described as a “witch hunt” against him, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers vigorously defended his decision not to be vaccinated …
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
9 Truths From Aaron Rodgers' Explosive Vaxx Interview You Aren't Allowed To Say — 'For the media out there taking shots at me, you don't know my story. Now you do. So quit lying about me.'
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New York Times:
The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote — Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
'It's a walkout!' … BRADFORD, Pa. — Dustin Snyder was tired of the low wages, the 60-hour workweeks and the impossible-to-please customers, and so in early September the assistant general manager at a McDonald's here drafted a petition that laid bare months of building anger and frustration.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A spin doctor with ties to Russia allegedly fed the Steele dossier before fighting to discredit it — Charles Dolan Jr., a PR executive who cut his teeth in Democratic politics, provided anti-Trump information, according to the special counsel probing the Russia investigation
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Kimberley Strassel / New York Post:
Inside the Clinton dossier and the con behind the Russiagate scandal
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston invited YIMBYs to look at his housing record. They panned it. — In the middle of a city grappling with a major housing shortage sit 15 parcels of land now occupied by garbage-strewn parking lots, auto shops, a car wash and old government buildings.
Michelle R. Martinelli / USA Today:
NASCAR president denounces 'Let's Go Brandon' chant: 'We're not happy about that' — AVONDALE, Ariz. — NASCAR repudiated its association with “Let's go, Brandon,” the political rallying cry being used on social media and at various sporting events as an insult directed at President Joe Biden.
New York Times:
Trapped in a Pandemic Funk: Millions of Americans Can't Shake a Gloomy Outlook — Despite signals that the economy is improving and the virus is waning, many Americans said they were frustrated by polarized politics and a sense of stagnancy. — A year ago, Michael Macey …
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New York Times:
Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry — An Atlanta D.A. is said to be likely to impanel a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies. — As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights …
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